Evidence Quote by June Jordan

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

— June Jordan

I am working never to be late again.

— June Jordan

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

— June Jordan

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

We survive our love because we go on loving.

— June Jordan

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute…

— June Jordan

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous…

— June Jordan

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

— June Jordan

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per…

— June Jordan

“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.”

— June Jordan

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love…

— June Jordan

“...love without being destroyed...”

— June Jordan